Inaugural lecture in Precision Viticulture
New Professor of Precision Viticulture at the Wine Campus Neustadt introduces himself and his field of expertise. Prof. Dr. Andreas Düker has held the new professorship for Precision Viticulture at TH Bingen since November 2018. On Thursday, 6 December, the university professor will introduce himself to the academic public with his inaugural lecture at the Wine Campus Neustadt. He will dedicate his lecture to the topic of "Precision Viticulture - demand-oriented cultivation for sustainable viticulture 4.0". Düker is a biologist and received his doctorate from the TU Kaiserslautern in 2001. Over the course of his career, he has led numerous research projects in the field and most recently worked at the Institute of Agroecology at RLP AgroScience. There he was primarily involved with innovative processes and application techniques in plant protection.
In his lecture, the scientist will present this exciting and highly topical field of teaching and research: From the basics, to the opportunities, to the future prospects that Precision Viticulture opens up. "It is very important to me to show the current state of research and to present the many ways in which GPS and sensor-based technology can be used to maximize grape quality and minimize environmental impact," says Düker. "The heterogeneity of vineyards, which are supposed to produce homogeneous grapes of the highest possible quality, presents our winegrowers with new challenges every day . Digitalization as a building block of precision viticulture can make an enormous contribution here."
The Wine Campus Neustadt, the joint scientific institution of the Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern and Bingen universities and the Rural Area Service Center (DLR) Rhenish Palatinate, is the first institution to offer a professorship in the teaching and research field of precision viticulture and is therefore considered a pioneer in this field. Course Director Prof. Dr. Dominik Durner says: "We want to intensify research into digitalization in viticulture and are delighted to be taking an important step in the right direction with the new professorship. Ultimately, precision viticulture affects everyone, because the resource-conserving and quality-optimized cultivation of vineyards in the course of sustainability is in everyone's interest."
Prof. Dr. Düker's inaugural lecture will take place on Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. in the auditorium of the Rural Area Service Center (DLR) Rhenish Palatinate. Registration is not required.